Fernanda D'Agostino
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| education = George Washington University
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Fernanda D'Agostino is an American artist and sculptor from Portland, Oregon. Her 30-year career includes works that "integrated personal, societal and environmental concerns" into public art installations.{{cite web |last1=Hopkins |first1=Terri |title=Fernanda D'Agostino: The Method of Loci |url=https://artgym.marylhurst.edu/exhibitions/fernanda-dagostino-the-method-of-loci/ |website=The Art Gym |accessdate=April 2, 2019}} Her new media works frequently incorporate technically sophisticated interactive elements.{{cite web |last1=Flock |first1=T.S. |title=With 'Generativity,' Suyama Space's End Transforms into a Meditation on Fecundity |url=https://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/with-generativity-suyama-spaces-end-transforms-into-a-meditation-on-fecundity/ |website=Seattle Weekly |date=October 21, 2016 |accessdate=April 1, 2019}}
D'Agostino was awarded a Bonnie Bronson Fellowship in 1995, a Flintridge Foundation Award for visual artists in 2002,{{cite book |last1=Gamblin |first1=Noriko |last2=Jacobson |first2=Karen |last3=Conkelton |first3=Sheryl |title=Flintridge Foundation awards for visual artists, 2001/2002 |date=2002 |publisher=The Flintridge Foundation. |location=Pasadena, Calif}} and an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in 2016 among other honors.{{cite web |title=Fernanda D'Agostino- Fellowship Recipient |url=https://www.oregonartscommission.org/fellowship-profile/fernanda-dagostino |website=Oregon Arts Commission |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}
Monographs on D'Agostino's work have been published twice by The Art Gym, Offering: An installation in 1989 and Method of Loci in 2013. Her work is held in the collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Yellowstone Art Museum, and the Missoula Museum of the Arts.
Career
D'Agostino studied at George Washington University/The Corcoran School, earned her BS in Education at the College of New Jersey in 1973 and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Montana in 1984.
D'Agostino's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia in Russia's largest annual New Media Festival, ‘CYBERFEST’ in 2012.{{cite magazine |last1=Sterling |first1=Bruce |title=Cyberfest 2012 Saint Petersburg |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/11/cyberfest-2012-saint-petersburg/ |magazine=Wired |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Cyberfest |url=http://cylandfest.com/site/program/ |website=Cybeberfest |publisher=Cyland |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}
In 2013, The Art Gym presented a retrospective exhibition of D'Agostino's work, The Method of Loci which was described in Artforum as "a feast of sensory experience and symbolic power."{{cite web |last1=Snyder |first1=Stephanie |title=Fernanda D'Agostino |url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/the-art-gym-at-marylhurst-university-43878 |website=Artforum |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}
Her video installation, Borderline, is the first encountered in the 2019 exhibition at the Portland Art Museum entitled The map is not the territory, "the central event for the Center for Northwest Art [that] is the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art, Grace Kook-Anderson’s reimagining of its Contemporary Northwest Art Awards (CNAA) exhibition." Critic Laurel Reed-Pavic called it, "a standout show."{{cite web |last1=Reed Pavic |first1=Laurel |title="the map is not the territory": Whose border is it? |url=https://www.orartswatch.org/the-map-is-not-the-territory-whose-border-is-it/ |website=Oregon ArtsWatch |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Briana |title=Northwest artists showcase 'the map is not the territory' takes on regional and global themes |url=https://expo.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/03/6425593ad77588/northwest-artists-showcase-the-map-is-not-the-territory-takes-on-regional-and-global-themes-.html |website=Oregonlive |date=March 10, 2019 |publisher=Oregonian |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}
Public art works
D’Agostino has been commissioned to make many major public works of art.{{cite web |title=The publics art |url=https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/thinkoutloud/segment/the-publics-art/ |website=Think Out Loud |publisher=OPB |accessdate=April 2, 2019 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182812/https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/thinkoutloud/segment/the-publics-art/ |url-status=dead }}
Garden of Strength, 2008, is installed at the Mayfair Community Center in the Mayfair neighborhood of San Jose, California. It was inspired by the diversity, and the rich cultural history, of the Mayfair area and by the spirit of growth and renewal embodied in the flourishing Mayfair Community Garden adjacent to the site.{{cite web |title=San Jose, CA |url=http://sanjoseca.gov/facilities/facility/details/Public-Art-Garden-of-Strength-Mayfair-Co-487 |website=SanJoseCA |publisher=City of San Jose |accessdate=April 2, 2019 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182807/http://sanjoseca.gov/facilities/facility/details/Public-Art-Garden-of-Strength-Mayfair-Co-487 |url-status=dead }}
Intellectual Ecosystem is located at the Portland State University Associated Student Recreation Center and was noted as one of 2011's 40 best public artworks in the United States and Canada by the Americans for the Arts “Public Art Year in Review.”.{{cite web |title=Intellectual Ecosystem |url=https://www.pdx.edu/recreation/sites/www.pdx.edu.recreation/files/Credits10.18.pdf |website=Portland State University |accessdate=April 2, 2019 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182804/https://www.pdx.edu/recreation/sites/www.pdx.edu.recreation/files/Credits10.18.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=News |url=http://www.elizabethleach.com/News.cfm?NewsID=95 |publisher=Elizabeth Leach Gallery |accessdate=April 2, 2019 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402192758/http://www.elizabethleach.com/News.cfm?NewsID=95 |url-status=dead }}
Urban Hydrology is a series of twelve outdoor 2009 granite sculptures installed along the Portland Transit Mall, part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.{{cite web|title=Urban Hydrology, 2009|url=http://culturenow.org/entry&permalink=06582&seo=Urban-Hydrology_Fernanda-DAgostino-and-City-of-Portland-and-Multnomah-County-Public-Art-Collection-courtesy-of-the-Regional-Arts-Culture-Council|publisher=cultureNOW|accessdate=August 8, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Urban Hydrology|url=https://www.publicartarchive.org/art/Urban-Hydrology|publisher=Public Art Archive|accessdate=August 8, 2015}}
Celestial Navigation is an 18-foot-tall (5.5 m) glass and metal sculpture of a navigational quadrant in the International Boulevard plaza of SeaTac/Airport light rail station.{{cite web |title=Guide to art on Link light rail |url=http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/201404_startonlinkmap.pdf |date=April 2014 |publisher=Sound Transit |accessdate=January 13, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906070354/http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/201404_startonlinkmap.pdf |archivedate=September 6, 2015 }}{{cite web |title=SeaTac/Airport Station – Public Art |url=http://soundtransit.org/Projects-Home/STart-Public-Art-Program/Public-Art-Projects/Airport-Station.xml |url-status=dead |publisher=Sound Transit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612214226/http://soundtransit.org/Projects-Home/STart-Public-Art-Program/Public-Art-Projects/Airport-Station.xml |archivedate=June 12, 2010 |accessdate=January 13, 2017}}
Fluid Dynamics is on the Waterfront Bay Trail at 66th Avenue in Oakland, California commissioned by the City of Oakland and East Bay Regional Park District.{{cite web |last1=Black |first1=Jenelle |last2=Love |first2=William |title=MLK regional shoreline gets art inspired by nature |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/02/29/mlk-regional-shoreline-gets-art-inspired-by-nature/ |website=East Bay Times |date=February 29, 2008 |accessdate=April 2, 2019}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/dagostino] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182815/http://www.ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/dagostino |date=April 2, 2019 }} Interview with the artist]
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Category:Artists from Portland, Oregon
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